Mathematics and mathematicians
mathematics in Sweden before 1950
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Author
Publication
1998 - American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, Rhode Island
Language
English
Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL681036M
- ISBN-100821806122
- OCLC Control Number37293309
- OCLC Control Numbermathematicsmathe0013gard
- Library of Congress Control Number97027619
and 2 more
- Goodreads4488403
- WikidataQ123465221
Classifications
- DDC510/.9485/09034
- LCCQA27.S85 G37 1998
Description
This book is about mathematics in Sweden between 1630 and 1950 - from S. Klingenstierna to M. Riesz, T. Carleman, and A. Beurling. It tells the story of how continental mathematics came to Sweden, how it was received, and how it inspired new results. The book contains a biography of Gosta Mittag-Leffler, the father of Swedish mathematics, who introduced the Weierstrassian theory of analytic functions and dominated a golden age from 1880 to 1910. Important results are analyzed and re-proved in modern notation, with explanations of their relations to mathematics at the time. The book treats Backlund transformations, Mittag-Leffler's theorem, the Phragmen-Lindelof theorem and Carleman's contributions to the spectral theorem, quantum mechanics, and the asymptotics of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions.
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- History of mathematics,
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